Question

I have a method that need to try to update my twitter status. I will send a lot of messages and I want to continue if some message throw a error.

Today I catch everything, but I dont like. Maybe should I put this catch at the caller? Or return exception instead bool?

    public bool RefreshStatus(string status, out Status newStatus)
    {
        try
        {
            newStatus = twitterContext.UpdateStatus(status);
            return true;
        }
        catch
        {
            newStatus = null;
            return false;
        }
    }

I call this method inside a for.
I see method like Int32.TryParse and they dont do this, just ignore validations(I don´t have in this case)

Answer 1

Actually what TryParse do(at Int32, Single, etc) is not throw Exceptions, but not catch Exceptions thrown at called method.

What I really need is a twitterContext.TryUpdateStatus(status);